The Practice

By Sylvia Hsieh LawyersUSA, the national publication of Lawyers Weekly Lawyers who have caught the Twitter bug can wax poetic about how the micro-blogging site allows them to make new connections, increase their exposure, display their expertise to a wider ...

By Stephen E. Seckler and Vanessa DiMauro Twitter, LinkedIn and other forms of social networking are getting a lot of attention these days. But if you are not sure how to integrate these tools into an overall marketing strategy, you ...

They are the last lines of defense between your firm’s (and your clients’) confidential online data and a security breach. So how can you ensure that your passwords are up to snuff? Stephen Bird, longtime contributing editor of the legal ...

Risk-Free Business is an occasional feature intended as a guide for lawyers on the topic of professional liability insurance. By William C. Saturley and Joseph S. Callanan In our last column, we discussed the significance of a reservation of rights letter ...

Is the location of your office, whether downtown, in a strip mall or in a two-story walkup, critical from a client perspective? The answer depends on the types of clients you seek to attract and what is most convenient to ...

By Kimberly Atkins Every law firm wants happy, healthy employees, but should your law firm implement a wellness program? The benefits of workplace wellness programs have been widely touted. They are known to improve productivity and can cut absenteeism by ...

By Trey Ryder Lawyers often ask me to explain how selling-based marketing differs from education-based marketing. I point out the standard differences about giving prospects what they want — information and advice — and removing what they don’t want: a ...

By Jim Calloway In the good old days, a lawyer could store many closed client files in a standard bankers box. Now it is common for a single client file to require many boxes. Today, there are tens of thousands ...

When recession cuts revenue, cutting expenses is the most feasible way for law firms to preserve profitability. Some expenses are better targets than others. Canceling meetings that bring people together for training, networking and personal contact is a risky way ...

Write On provides guidance for attorneys on writing legal memoranda and briefs. By Lisa Healy and Julie Baker We are all familiar with the saying, “a stitch in time saves nine,” and in legal writing, most of us were taught ...